The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-11-02

answer Is there jury in the world that
would render verdict OF guilty of murder
in any degresf On the contrary, is not
the universal verdict well done?' Does
not the slayer of the fiend receive baptism
of benedictions from men and women,
wives, mothers, sisters and children for
killing the monster? What has the Sun to
say? But in the case cited, the human
beast did not murder the wife, he perpe-
trated the outrage, and left her alive in
agonies worse than death pangs. Some
times such denounced creatures as we have
referred to, outrage and then murder their
victims-our esteemed contemporary, the
Sun, has doubtless heard of such cases.
Then the horror spreads to all homes in
the vicinity, then every heart is touched,
every manly lip Is compressed, every hand
becomes a clinched fist-there is detesta-
ton In every heart, and fire in every eye.
Then good men assemble, the guardians of
the home, the protectors OF wives and chill
dred, and they conclude to hunt down the
wretch and if found, kill him. What has
the Sun to say about it? Does
such an act disgrace" the fathers
and brothers, Do they constitute a
murderous mob2 Is the editor of the
Vincennes Sun a husband? Is he q father
If go, he can put such questions to himself
and tell his readers just how he would act.
We have no hesitancy in crowning him
with all the high prerogatives Of manhood;
and realizing his rssponsibilities-God i'm
posed, before statutes were made-he goes
forth, loyal to a higher law than constitu-
tions and statutes and Stays creature in
all regards worse than q mad dog or a wild
beast.
What of Amer Green? What OF Luella
Msbbitt3 We do not care to rehearse nor
re-hssh the story. To our own minds eye
there stands the home of old man Mabbitt.
We paint no fancy picture of the home,
but it was home. There is no more
it is home. We have no poetic fsnoies for
the child, the daughter Luella. Was she
the pet of the homer Was her voice mel.
ody and her smile benediction? We do
Lot know. But Amer Green, a wretch
whom it we're a compliment to call viii
lain, and an Insult to the whole canine
race to cali dog, sllured her from home,
murdered her in the dark and fled. Gap
tured, he was returned, and brought into
close proximity TO the place OF his crime.
Then what One sentiment took possess
ion OF men of stsid habits, farmers, hus-
bands, fathers, brothers. Each felt his
share OF indignation; it msssed like storm
clouds when cyclones and tornadoes are
fashioned for their work. 1t was q
resistless impulse, not of vengeance, but
was that Amer Green had lived too
long and that Justice demanded his death.
His damnable, demonized deeds demanded
his speedy removal. Law, Justice, all
things sacred to home, the weakness, the
innocence, the purity of wives and
daughters demanded that Amer Green
should die; and in killing him no disgrace
attaches to city, county nor State, unless it
can be shown that Amer Green ought to
live. The Vincennes Commercial, referring
to Amer Green's record as kept by himself,
and with which the people are familiar.
says: "For the good of the world he is out
OF the way. We deplore mob law, bat
even mob law in this wretch's case did not
come soon enough. Green's entire life was
one of infsmy." Such upheavalS as those
which ended the career of Amer Green,
are not mobs in any legitimate sense. They
are exhibitions of no disrespect of law
and order-they are not composed Of bad
and dangerous men. They are the results
of natural laws which cannot be revoked
and when called into operation are re-
sistless. 1t matters little how the Amer
Greens of the State go, and he or they who
rid society OF such indescribAble monsters
are benefactors.